Agroecological farming emerges among approaches for managing crop pests including the “True” fruit fly (Diptera, Tephritidae).  This baseline interviews and field experiments in Eastern Central Tanzania was conducted to determine farmers’ perception on the approach and verify its socio-economic performance in cucurbit crop production. The performance of small-scale cucurbit farming in...

Based on colonial capitalist logics, global biosecurity strategies have long relied upon downstream measures of surveillance and control to reduce disease burden and address the rising risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). One Health aims to address this through what it describes as a systems approach, yet in failing to grapple...

Corporate actors in capitalist food systems continue to consolidate ownership of the means of production in ever fewer hands, posing a critical barrier to food sovereignty and to an agroecological transition. Using a case study approach, the journal article evaluates the successes and failures of two campaigns for agrarian reform in...

The recent acceleration of the financialization of nature, in which a farmer’s role as a good custodian of land has shifted from a moral obligation to an economic opportunity, has expanded capitalism’s spheres of accumulation beyond agricultural commodities to the very building blocks they rely upon water, carbon, and biodiversity. This...

Since settlement, colonial values of productivity and improvement have transformed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Country into a site of agricultural extraction. This sturdy examines the nascent peasantisation movement in Australia driven by small-scale farmers rejecting colonial capitalist agriculture within an agroecological transition. The case studies explore how new peasants...

In recent decades, several United Nations (UN) organizations have made efforts to change global agri-food policies from a model promoting corporate industrial farming to one advocating agroecological family farming. This shift has garnered support from some of the UN’s most active member countries, farmer organizations, civil society, and academia. However,...